What do you hope to accomplish in 2014? Question of the Week

I’m hoping people in this country can accomplish persuading Congress to be reasonable in their actions and their way of thinking and curtail their obstruction of all the social issues that are confronting this country.

Not much to hope for, just a simple request and a huge accomplishment for 2014. What a happy and healthy new year that would be for all Americans.

— Lois Eisenberg, Valencia

This is the year to learn from our history

My goal for 2014 is to wake up U.S. citizens to realize that our Founding Fathers’ purposes for establishing this country are being destroyed by those who refuse to accept that the government is really “We the people” and when it is not, then it is tyranny.

I will work to reduce the gun control laws, not to increase them. Are people really that stupid to think that criminals will obey laws?

Working in 2014 to put God and the Bible back in schools will re-instill the moral and ethical foundations that will put us back on track and stop the decline that every great civilization before us has experienced. If we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.

— Nancy Tujetsch, Castaic

Job creation, better economy needed

The very best hope for 2014, for all of us, would be a much better and growing economy. Our politicians need to realize jobs are not created through more regulation and higher taxes.

Certainly, the end of Obamacare would encourage businesses to hire when they now face all sorts of hidden taxes from that fiasco. And, we are already the highest-taxed state in the highest taxed country in the whole world.

So, good media, like the Daily Breeze, should do more to educate people on how life and jobs are where governments tax and spend in socialist countries like Europe, particularly Greece.

— Dick Ettington, Palos Verdes

Government needs to work on employment, debt

Above all else, for our government to have credibility, we must see improvement, much improvement, in the economy by the end of this year.

Less unemployment, evidence of a shrinking debt and a balanced budget must ensue.

Everybody must take a hit to his pocketbook for our country to succeed in moving forward in an economically healthy way. Hopefully, this will all be done in fair ways for all.

— Steve Ross, Long Beach,

Leave Rose Parade alone

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Why does everything in California have to be politicized?

Leave the Rose Parade alone and let it be as it was intended.

Gay marriage is morally wrong, and making it legal doesn’t change that fact.

I object to having it shoved in my face at what used to be a wonderful family event.

What’s next?

Ah, yes. On university campuses this year, men are free to wear dresses and earrings to class, but will not be allowed to light up a cigarette.

This country has truly gone mad!

Happy New Year!

— Rosie Bauman, Lakewood

Making better choices for healthier new year

In 2014 I’m going to make healthier food choices during meal times.

I find making better food choices is easier to incorporate into my lifestyle than trying to eliminate the go-to (bad) ones altogether; or dare I say it — the “D” word: Diet.

— Billy Moses, Bellflower

Facebook readers focus on personal goals

To eat healthier and focus on my goal of buying my family our first house.